At the end of the
presentation teachers had many questions: were interested in the project’s
expansion, in development opportunities, how the project is protected from
hackers. Teachers believe that the project will help collaborate with students
with expedition, to minimize nonattendance. Schoolchildren were glad with the
opportunity to look through lessons schedule, homework exercises, and their
marks on the web. Right after students gave their connection data to the
e-school they put on steam to try the new system.
According to Emilijus
Musajevas – head of department on e-commerce projects – the
“Penki kontinentai” project is unique and
it is connecting schools not only in Vilnius but also in all
Lithuania. The project is based on net site
technology; i. e. there is no need for special software or supplements to use
the system. All you need is a computer with internet
access.
Emilijus Musajevas states
that the project becomes installed fluently; schools are ready to test it. Three
Lithuanian schools will be incorporated into the system till summer. One of the
biggest problems is poor computerization of educational institutions. Besides
this problem, teachers are afraid of lack of time to fill in the e-daybook, they
gave a lot of their attention to preparing for lessons, red-pencilling
copybooks, filling in the traditional schoolbook. The project’s coordinators of
“Penki kontinentai” suggest to solve this
problem by commission of class’ dutiful student which will be responsible for
filling in the e-school version, e-class’ arrangement.
Teachers with the help of
press-buttons in the instant will take a look through all week’s lessons
schedule, will plan their time according to it, all their past lessons, will
note the most important subjects of lessons, will view all classes’ pictures and
the most useful information also all associates, i. e. other
teachers.
Students also can review
all week’s lessons schedule, their mark book, schoolmates and teachers, can send
visual or regular message to them.
How to
Use
“Schedule“– exact week’s
lessons’ schedule in which you can find time and name of disciplines, class and
its possible description. It helps to plan time.
In the “Class“ rubric the teachers can see class or classes, to
which they are preparing lessons, the type of class and name of preceptress,
class pictures of students with their personal information (No in the classbook,
birth date, by pressing link “More“
they will see the telephone No, e-mail address, the ICQ No, “MSN Messenger“ or
“Yahoo Messenger“ addresses,
“Chat.lt“ name, personal web page’s address, etc.). Right here by several
pressings you can send messages to students.
Rubric ”Lessons“ – easy
edited discipline book. If you wish to fill schedule with a new lesson you
should press button “Add new“, choose the lesson’s date, class, discipline,
write down the lesson name and the description, homework. After you’ve made
these changes you should press editing window. Discipline book’s editing is
complete. After teachers write down students’ marks they can add notes with
comments: test, homework, etc. It is practically impossible to delete the mark.
In case the student knows the teacher’s registration data and deletes the mark,
the teacher will see it. You can’t delete the marks from the system, you can
only change them (in a different way) because the system saves the mark’s
“history” – when it was written, when it was changed or deleted.
It is possible to establish
student’s learning level – high, the highest (advanced) or low (common). It will
help in student’s ratings counting.
By pressing button “Class
book“ you can edit it depending on marks, other records, separate by date or
student. In the book’s summary you should choose date, a name of discipline,
class – and you can see month’s lessons’ resume – students’ marks, homework,
lesson topics, and descriptions. You can copy this information.
There is all the necessary
information about school teaching associates, their discipline, other data in
the rubric “Teachers”, you can also send a message to them. You can check new
messages in the rubric “Messages”. With the help of web cam you can send video
messages. If you want to review or correct information about yourself, you can
do it in the rubric “Information”.
This system also will be
useful for students. They can see
the exact lesson schedule and its changes here.
The rubric “Lessons” will
be useful for student who was absent during a lesson or was not so attentive.
You can make a review through made appreciation, to see what the lesson topic
was or what was for homework. You can separate the lessons resume by a name of
discipline or by date. You can take a look on your marks (with pressing
disciplines link or choosing rubric “Diary”). You should choose the type of
viewing, discipline, press “Summary”, choose the date and then you can see all
your marks.
To know the information
about your rating (are you the best student, outsider or in the middle) you can
in the rubric “My statistics”. There you will find your position by discipline
in the class, the school or whole Lithuania (your rating is counted between all
Lithuanian e-schools participants in the project). There also will be
information about other students with the same rating.
The teachers will have the
access to some system’s departments, the students – to other, the left could
enjoy the all site’s information; according to that the e-school site’s
information will always be updated, new and interesting to the users. The access
to the site’s different departments will be restrict.
You can update information
of the e-school’s site using the “I-manager” system in your computer or cell
phone with WAP.
With the help of web cams
in the nearest future you will see on the site lessons video materials, other
events. The web cams can be equiped in the classes and at home. It will be
useful for those, who are ill and have to stay at home. It will be possible to
arrange virtual lessons for couple different schools with the help of the
virtual conferences software.
It is very difficult to
imagine the nowadays web site without the charts rooms, forums, which are
created for teachers, students, parents to dispute or to say their opinion on
the different subjects.
There is a possibility of
students ID cards releasing. The ID cards with a magnetic tape can be also used
like a discount card or a reader card. They can control the students attendance.
The improved system of the e-school
will be suggested to the other schools of Lithuania. The iniciators of the
project are pupils and students, they know all main problems of educational
institutions, and how to improve the work of students and teachers and make it
effective and clear. All they got to do is to change a point of view of
traditional school‘s teachers to modern technologies and prove that the
e-school‘s project will make better relationship between teachers and students.
The young project‘s coordinators will appeal to the Ministry of
Education and Science for the project‘s implementation in all Lithuania. The
projects like this could be useful not only for schools or gymnasiums, but also
for the preschool educational
institutions, the universities, the imprisonment institutions. “Penki
kontinentai“ believes, that today‘s information public is impossible without the
real realization of modern school‘s vision.